Adult film star James Deen said this morning he is continuing his legal fight against Cal/OSHA after it issued nine workplace safety citations along with fines of $77,875 against James Deen Productions. Deen has refused to “accept the citations or pay the egregious fines” accompanying the complaints filed against his company, James Deen Productions, by […]

LOS ANGELES — The Free Speech Coalition announced today that VICA, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, has voted to formally oppose a statewide ballot measure that would allow private citizens to sue adult performers if a condom is not visible in an adult film. The initiative is slated to cost the city of Los Angeles […]

LOS ANGELES — AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), one of the state’s leading public health and advocacy organizations, has announced its opposition to a pending ballot measure pertaining to adult film production in California. The controversial “Safer Sex in Adult Film Production Act” is awaiting approval to appear on November’s ballot. In its release APLA states […]

SACRAMENTO — California’s Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board says that it will review the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s latest petition to amend Cal/OSHA’s current bloodborne pathogens standards for adult producers. The AHF’s new petition, a facsimile of its previous proposal that didn’t get the required votes to pass last month at a Standards Board meeting, was drafted […]

OAKLAND, CA — Over one hundred adult performers are expected to appear at Thursday’s Cal/OSHA hearing in Oakland, where Cal/OSHA board members will vote on new regulations that mandate not only condoms, but also dental dams, eye protection and other barriers for use on adult film sets. “These are unworkable regulations based in fear and […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Democratic Party has taken a position on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s statewide porn-condom ballot measure that’s set for the November ballot: It’s condemned it. The local party’s oversight body, known as the Democratic County Central Committee, unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the measure at a meeting last week, according […]

Cal/OSHA Standards Board Meeting, Public Comment prior to the VOTE regarding proposed adult production regulations WHERE? Harris State Building, Auditorium, 1515 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612 WHEN? February 18, 2016, 10am WHY? The proposed regulations (5193.1) will end present testing and performer privacy protocols and enact a regulation that will end our industry as you know it! ? CONDOMS required for all vaginal, anal and oral sex. NO EXCEPTIONS!! ? GOGGLES required for facials, “dental dams” for oral sex and rimming ? MEDICAL RECORDS must be kept by producers for up to 30 years ? TESTING becomes lower quality and less frequent ? FINES of up to $25K for each violation Cal/OSHA will vote to adopt these regulations on Feb 18. This is the adult industry’s last chance to ask for a “NO” vote on 5193.1. PERFORMERS, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO THESE PROPOSED REGULATIONS For information and travel assistance, contact INFO@FreeSpeechCoalition.com Please follow and like us:

Final Vote on Condom and Goggle Regulations Scheduled for February 18, in Oakland

Free Speech Coalition is requesting that adult producers refrain from shooting on February 18th, the date of a critical Cal/OSHA meeting, so that large numbers of performers may be free to attend and testify. Cal/OSHA is expected to vote on regulations that would require condoms for all penetrative sex, including oral, as well as dental […]

A proposal to require all porn actors in California to wear condoms on set is meant to protect the performers from sexually transmitted infections. But some public health experts are hoping it will protect the public as well — because when it comes to porn, a growing body of evidence suggests that in some cases, […]